17 research outputs found
Optimised configuration of sensing elements for control and fault tolerance applied to an electro-magnetic suspension system
New technological advances and the requirements to increasingly abide
by new safety laws in engineering design projects highly affects industrial
products in areas such as automotive, aerospace and railway industries.
The necessity arises to design reduced-cost hi-tech products with minimal
complexity, optimal performance, effective parameter robustness properties,
and high reliability with fault tolerance. In this context the control system
design plays an important role and the impact is crucial relative to the level
of cost efficiency of a product.
Measurement of required information for the operation of the design
control system in any product is a vital issue, and in such cases a number of
sensors can be available to select from in order to achieve the desired system
properties. However, for a complex engineering system a manual procedure
to select the best sensor set subject to the desired system properties can
be very complicated, time consuming or even impossible to achieve. This is
more evident in the case of large number of sensors and the requirement to
comply with optimum performance.
The thesis describes a comprehensive study of sensor selection for control
and fault tolerance with the particular application of an ElectroMagnetic
Levitation system (being an unstable, nonlinear, safety-critical system with
non-trivial control performance requirements). The particular aim of the
presented work is to identify effective sensor selection frameworks subject to
given system properties for controlling (with a level of fault tolerance) the
MagLev suspension system. A particular objective of the work is to identify
the minimum possible sensors that can be used to cover multiple sensor faults,
while maintaining optimum performance with the remaining sensors.
The tools employed combine modern control strategies and multiobjective
constraint optimisation (for tuning purposes) methods. An important part
of the work is the design and construction of a 25kg MagLev suspension
to be used for experimental verification of the proposed sensor selection
frameworks
Optimised sensor configurations for a Maglev suspension
This paper discusses a systematic approach for selecting the minimum number of
sensors for an Electromagnetic levitation system that satisfies both deterministic and stochastic
performance objectives. The controller tuning is based upon the utilisation of a recently
developed genetic algorithm, namely NSGAII. Two controller structures are discussed, an inner
loop classical solution for illustrating the efficacy of the NSGAII tuning and a Linear quadratic
gaussian structure particularly on sensor optimization
Optimised sensor configurations for a MAGLEV suspension system
This paper discusses a systematic approach for selecting the minimum
number of sensors for an Electromagnetic suspension system that satisfies both
optimised deterministic and stochastic performance objectives. The performance is
optimised by tuning the controller using evolutionary algorithms. Two controller
strategies are discussed, an inner loop classical solution for illustrating the efficacy of
the evolutionary algorithm and a Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) structure
particularly on sensor optimisation
Optimised configuration of sensors for fault tolerant control of an electro-magnetic suspension system
For any given system the number and location of sensors can affect the closed-loop performance as well as the reliability of the system. Hence, one problem in control system design is the selection of the sensors in some optimum sense that considers both the system performance and reliability. Although some methods have been proposed that deal with some of the aforementioned aspects, in this work, a design framework dealing with both control and reliability aspects is presented. The proposed framework is able to identify the best sensor set for which optimum performance is achieved even under single or multiple sensor failures with minimum sensor redundancy. The proposed systematic framework combines linear quadratic Gaussian control, fault tolerant control and multiobjective optimisation. The efficacy of the proposed framework is shown via appropriate simulations on an electro-magnetic suspension system
MAGLEV suspensions - a sensor optimisation framework
In this paper, a systematic framework for optimised
sensor configurations is implemented via H∞ Loop
Shaping Procedure. The optimisation framework, gives the
sensor sets that satisfy predefined user criteria and the preset
constraints required for the MAGnetic LEVitated suspension
performance via evolutionary algorithms. The scheme is assessed
via appropriate simulations for its efficacy
Fault Tolerant Control for EMS systems with sensor failure
The paper presents a method to recover the performance of an EMS (Electromagnetic suspension) under faulty air gap measurement. The controller is a combination of classical control loops, a Kalman estimator and analytical redundancy (for the air gap signal). In case of a faulty air gap sensor the air gap signal is recovered using the Kalman filter and analytical redundancy. Simulations verify the proposed sensor Fault Tolerant Control (FTC) method for the EMS system
Sensor optimisation via H∞ applied to a MAGLEV suspension system
In this paper a systematic method via H∞ control
design is proposed to select a sensor set that satisfies a number
of input criteria for a MAGLEV suspension system. The proposed
method recovers a number of optimised controllers for each possible
sensor set that satisfies the performance and constraint criteria using
evolutionary algorithms
Sensor optimisation via H∞ applied to a MAGLEV suspension system
In this paper a systematic method via H∞ control
design is proposed to select a sensor set that satisfies a number
of input criteria for a MAGLEV suspension system. The proposed
method recovers a number of optimised controllers for each possible
sensor set that satisfies the performance and constraint criteria using
evolutionary algorithms
Optimal passive fault tolerant control of a high redundancy actuator
The High Redundancy Actuator (HRA) project deals with the construction of
an actuator using many redundant actuation elements. If one element fails, this changes the
behaviour slightly, but the system still remains operation. A key challenge in this project is
to design a passive fault tolerant controller that maintains the required performance in the
presence of faults. This paper shows how to achieve this with structurally simple controllers, by
optimising the parameters using a genetic algorithm
Disturbance observer based control for nonlinear MAGLEV suspension system
This paper investigates the disturbance rejection
problem of nonlinear MAGnetic LEViation (MAGLEV) suspension
system with “mismatching” disturbances. Here “mismatching”
refers to the disturbances that enter the system via different
channel to the control input. The disturbance referring in
this paper is mainly on load variation and unmodeled nonlinear
dynamics. By linearizing the nonlinear MAGLEV suspension
model, a linear state-space disturbance observer (DOB) is
designed to estimate the lumped “mismatching” disturbances.
A new disturbance compensation control method based on
the estimate of DOB is proposed to solve the disturbance
attenuation problem. The efficacy of the proposed approach
for rejecting given disturbance is illustrated via simulations on
realistic track input